Andy loves videogames, he’s been playing them for over thirty years and notched up credits on more than 30 before co-founding Pixel Toys.

He previously worked in a roles including Chief Game Designer, Global Brand Manager and Head of Digital Platforms, for companies like Codemasters and Activision, always as a champion for innovation and quality.

Since co-founding Pixel Toys in 2012 he’s helped the company grow to 25 people and become one of the UK's major success stories for mobile gaming.

First with the internationally successful original IP title Gunfinger and more recently with the high profile Warhammer 40,0000: Freeblade, which he showcased live on stage at Apple's September 2015 special event. Freeblade went on achieve over 3 million downloads in the first week of sale in November and continues to perform very well.

For most of his life Terry Waite has worked in the area of international affairs and has worked in most of the worlds conflict zones. As a young man, whilst living in Uganda, he negotiated directly with the late General Amin for the release of hostages; and as a member of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s private staff was successful in aiding the freedom of hostages in Iran, Libya and Beirut. It was in Beirut that he was captured and spent almost five years in solitary confinement. In the apartheid years he worked closely with Bishop Desmond Tutu and has continued his work for the disadvantaged in South Africa. He was a joint founder of YCare, an agency working for the development of young people throughout the world. He is President of Emmaus for the homeless and a joint founder of Hostage UK. He has written several books ranging from a serious account of his years in captivity, Taken on Trust, to his latest book, a comic novel, The Voyage of the Golden Handshake. He believes that it is vital that we retain our humour in the face of some of the grim realities of life and that laughter is therapeutic for all of us. He is both an Anglican and a Member of the Society of Friends. He is not a pacifist but strongly believes that force should only be used as an absolute last resort. That, he says, has not been the case in recent years and has resulted in dreadful chaos right across the Middle East.

Vasha Wallace is EVP Global Acquisitions & Development at FremantleMedia, one of the world's largest and most successful producers of outstanding entertainment brands, encompassing hit formats from Idols, The X Factor, to Got Talent, The Price Is Right, Let’s Make a Deal and Family Feud.
Vasha’s role encompasses the acquisition, development, international roll out and brand management of entertainment formats. She works with FremantleMedia’s global network of production companies, identifying programme opportunities and undertaking analysis in the latest market trends, presenting her findings inside and outside the organisation. In addition to working with FremantleMedia’s production companies, Vasha also cultivates and manages relationships with content creators, distributors and the independent production community.
Vasha joined FremantleMedia in 2004 as Acquisitions Manager. She became Vice President in 2005 and then Senior Vice President in 2008. In 2012, her remit was expanded and she joined the new Global Entertainment Development division, working across the format programming pipeline. In 2015 she was promoted to the role of Executive Vice President. During her tenure, Vasha has been involved in the international roll out of a number of hit formats including the successful Japanese Fuji format and YouTube hit Hole in the Wall - FremantleMedia's fastest ever format roll out. She also worked across a raft of shows including: Project Runway, Let's Dance, Farmer Wants a Wife, Thank God You're Here, The Apprentice, My Mom Cooks Better than Yours and Who Lives Here.
Vasha began her television career at Sky TV in New Zealand, and then moved to London. She joined London Weekend Television where she worked across a variety of productions, before moving to Granada International Production (now ITV Studios). She progressed to Granada’s Entertainment Development Unit: The Hot House, working across the development slate which included Saturday Night Takeaway, American Princess and Brainiacs.
Vasha has a First Class Honours Degree in Politics and Mass Communications from London Metropolitan University and a Diploma with Distinction in Interpersonal Communications from the University of London.

Holly Walsh is an award-winning comedian and writer who regularly appears across a range of BBC and Channel 4 TV and radio shows. Her most recent live show Never Had It, enjoyed a critically-acclaimed run at the Soho theatre.

Since buying the first issue of Wired in 1993, Chad’s momentum to collide his love of design and advertising with an unbridled passion for technology and innovation has exponentially catapulted a career that seeks to define the next version(s) of brand building. Whether it’s helping invent hover-boards to reinventing billboards, his relentless drive for pushing work into a multitude of expressions and channels has left a impressive wake of ground-breaking work that rethinks advertising for an endless list of clients that include Lexus, X Box, Samsung, Apple, Mercedes and Viagra.

Prior to McCann London, Chad was a Creative Partner at CHI&Partners;, ECD of RAPP London, ECD of i33 in New York, founder of one of the first integrated agencies in Detroit and a private dancer for millionaires – which he still does in the side. His contagious passion for championing new channels and taking on the unknown makes Chad a character that will continue to reinvent advertising – with a smile.

Jim Waterson has proved himself a master at combining BuzzFeed-style viral lols with the sometimes dry, grey-suited world of Westminster politics. His best work includes "25 people who are really confused as to why Grant Shapps follows them on Twitter" and "21 pictures of politicians in wellies staring at floods". He regularly appears as a commentator across radio and TV.

After graduating in Modern History from Oxford University, Anna Watkins began her career at the newly formed M&C; Saatchi in 1995. Key clients included The Mirror Group, BSkyB, ScottishCourage and Sainsbury’s.

After 6 years she moved to Madrid where she swiftly learnt Spanish and then secured the position of international sales and sponsorship director at PRISA, where she was responsible for cross-
media partnerships for El Pais, Canal+ and all other group channels.

After 3 years she returned to London and joined TBWA as Content Director of their new branded content arm, TBWA Stream, where she ran Orange’s global film programme amongst other innovative partnerships including PlayStation and ING.

In 2005 she joined the digital agency, Grand Union, to launch Hubbub, their content and social media agency as Managing Director, winning P&G;, HSBC and Boots as founding clients. After 3 years she was promoted to Managing Director of Grand Union Group where she oversaw the sale to FullSIX as well as the resultant merger with Six&Co.;

In 2012 she was appointed Managing Director of the media agency, Initiative, and was appointed to the IPG Mediabrands UK board in 2013.

The Australian will be alongside his former Red Bull teammate David Coulthard for many of Channel 4's live F1 races as an expert analyst. Having retired from F1 at the end of 2013, Mark is still racing hard, winning the World Endurance Championship in a Porsche sports car last season. He brings invaluable racing experience as well as a dose of his famous Antipodean charm. In F1, Mark won nine races for Red Bull from 215 starts.

Hugh Weber is the president of the New Jersey Devils, one of 30 professional hockey teams that form the National Hockey League, and the team’s home arena, Prudential Center, the state-of-the-art multi-purpose venue in downtown Newark, N.J.

Weber, one of the sports industry’s most innovative executives, had an invigorating impact on the overall culture of the organization after taking over as president in August 2013. He led an aggressive evolution of the company’s business strategy and day-to-day operations, initiating a fan-first approach focused on personal engagement while creating new, ground-breaking revenue streams.

Under his leadership, Prudential Center developed the first farm-to-fan arena concessions experience, featuring local New Jersey chefs and produce; introduced the first permanent 3D projection system for a U.S. hockey team and arena; partnered with Ritz-Carlton for staff training in customer service; and developed the first Flex Membership program in the NHL, giving fans and businesses a customizable platform for purchasing Devils tickets with year-round member benefits. As a result, Prudential Center and the Devils were named NJBiz’s 2014 Business of the Year.

Weber is dedicated to hiring the top talent in the industry and providing an environment that encourages professional and personal growth, with a focus on having a long-lasting, positive impact on communities in Newark and around the Garden State. He initiated an internal service program called “82 Hours” – in honor of 1982, the year the Devils moved to New Jersey – that gives employees 82 hours of company time each year to be agents of change. Through the program, Prudential Center and Devils employees annually host inner-city students for holiday celebrations, give weekly summer street hockey lessons throughout the city and have planted dune grass on New Jersey’s coast as part of the ongoing rebuilding efforts following Hurricane Sandy.

Based on the organization’s core values to captivate on a world-class level and engage on a personal one, Weber oversaw the creation of Prudential Center’s first brand campaign, “Our House Rules.” The campaign put Prudential Center’s stake in the ground as New Jersey’s home for sports and entertainment and let fans know that their experience at the arena would be different than anywhere else. “Our House Rules” gained national media attention, including features in the New York Times and Billboard Magazine, and won the Event & Arena Marketing Conference’s 2015 Campaign of the Year.

Weber has a track record of business success that benefits partners, employees and community members. Prior to his role with Prudential Center and the Devils, he was president of the NBA’s New Orleans Hornets. During his seven years with the organization, the team achieved record-setting ticket sales and sponsorship figures during a time of unprecedented instability created by Hurricane Katrina. The organization’s success extended into the community as the team became a pillar of the region’s resurgence.

Weber spearheaded the reorganization of the team’s basketball operations and developed creative, interactive programs to procure season ticket holders and build significant, long-lasting relationships with local partners and businesses. His efforts directly impacted the team’s financial success and helped secure stable, local ownership and a long-term lease with the state.

Weber is a board member of a variety of community, economic development and entrepreneurship organizations, reflecting his priority in investing in the people, businesses and leaders around him. He has four children, Brenna, Zoë, Hugh III and Jackson, and enjoys running, reading and being a father.

As Chief Marketing and Communications Officer, Keith is a member of the Unilever Executive and responsible for the Marketing, Communications and Sustainable Business functions.

His responsibilities are aligned to support Unilever’s vision: to double the size of the business while reducing its environmental footprint and increasing positive social impact. Keith sees sustainability as a driver of consumer-led profitable growth. He led the creation of the Unilever Sustainable Living Plan and has also pioneered new ways of integrating sustainability into the business.

Keith has led a step change in marketing at Unilever, most notably with significant advances in digital marketing and technologies, and has championed the development of brands with purpose through Unilever’s crafting Brands for Life strategy.

Outside Unilever he is a Fellow of The Marketing Society, and as an engineering graduate, a Fellow of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers. He is also Chairman of the World Economic Forum Consumer Industry Board, Chairman of Business in the Community International, Chairman of the not-for-profit Collectively and a Non Executive Director of Sun Products Corporation.

Aptly named for his current role of Executive Director at The Week, David Weeks has over twenty years experience in UK and International media sales. A self confessed ‘frustrated creative’ David has a reputation for applying original thinking to winning business; his recent successes include an award winning partnership with Rolex and an exclusive iPhone project with Coutts. Applying his 360 account management mantra David has worked with a wealth of senior client and agency contacts across all sectors – from luxury to finance and corporate campaigns.

Prior to joining The Week, David was the NEMEA Advertising Director of The Economist. He is a Board Director of the International Advertising Association.

Once awarded the Media Week ‘best dressed man of media’

A keen surfer, commuting on his trusty if slightly rusty Harley-Davidson his facial hair pre-dates the current hipster trends.

Oliver Weingarten is currently the Chief Executive Officer of OW Advisory, and since March 2015 has worked with Virtually Live to position them in the sports and broadcasting sectors including securing trials and partnerships with sports organisations.

Oliver trained at Olswang, and is a qualified solicitor with extensive commercial, legal and policy experience. Previously, he was General Secretary of the Formula E Teams’ Association during its inaugural 2014/15 Season, and Secretary General for the Formula One Teams' Association (FOTA) between 2011 and 2014. FOTA responsibilities including regulating the Teams’ cost control agreement, and coordinating activities on sporting, regulatory and commercial issues.

Completely lacking in digital let alone media skills at the time, KJ joined Facebook nearly four years ago as the first member of the global agency team in EMEA. She spent her first two years partnering with Omnicom agencies, most notably spearheading the award-winning McDonald’s World Cup global campaign known as Fry Futbol. For the past year, she has been leading Publicis Groupe across the region and is now the first Creative Agency Partner for Facebook in Europe. With the simple ambition to help make “enyy-inducing work” across Facebook’s products and platforms, KJ is responsible for developing programs and partnerships with creative agencies. Prior to joining Facebook in 2012, KJ spent more than 10 years at creative agencies in the US, including Leo Burnett, Wieden+Kennedy and JWT. As part of the leadership team at JWT NY, she played a pivotal role in winning such global accounts as Microsoft, Royal Caribbean and Johnson & Johnson.

Helen is Chief Marketing Officer and Managing Partner at HeyHuman, responsible for driving reputation and growth.

She started her career in media, working for HTV as Sales & Marketing Executive. She switched to agency life where she spent six years in account management at the Saatchi empire in both Dubai and New York, where she worked on clients including Delta Air Lines, General Mills, Xerox and Bell Atlantic.

After moving to London Helen not only shifted continents but also discipline, taking on her first new business role at DLKW. Helen has helped grow some of London’s finest agencies including; TBWA, Fallon, McCann, Dare and Elvis & The Portas Agency.

Formerly Chair of the IPA New Business Group, Helen currently sits on the WACL Executive Committee. This year she is Co-Chairing Gather, WACL’s annual training event.

Django Weisz Blanchetta is Managing Director at SuperHeroes, which he co-founded in 2009. SuperHeroes is an international, creativity-driven, digitally native agency with one mission: to save the world from boring advertising.

Django suavely leaps into the path of challenges and is not afraid to take on the mightiest tasks. His brave and innovative approach to management, as well as an irreverent sense of humour, has lead SuperHeroes to safeguard and amplify the brand power of a great roster of global clients.

Before launching SuperHeroes, Django cut his teeth as an Management Consultant and Operations Director on clients like Heineken, Nike and Philips. He learned that dedication, focus and working with the best people are all essential ingredients when fighting mediocrity in every form.

Damon Westbury is International Sales Director for Clear Channel Outdoor’s international division, with responsibility for leading strategic relationships and partnerships with global media agencies, top global advertisers and international OOH specialists.

Damon has extensive cross-media and international sales experience. He joined Clear Channel after 8 years at Microsoft, where he held a variety of roles, most recently as Global Agency and Accounts Director. Prior to this, Damon led Microsoft’s UK Categories team, having initially joined Microsoft to lead the advertising focus for the FMCG sector.

Before Microsoft, Damon was Client Sales Director at the UK’s leading female website handbag.com, Head of Sponsorship Sales at Carlton Interactive and Head of Client Sales at Fox Kids Europe.

In his role as Clear Channel’s International Sales Director, he is looking to capitalise on the powerful potential of Outdoor within the media mix, fuelled by the rapid growth of digital out-of-home and new technologies, to deliver compelling communications solutions that enable brands to engage with today’s connected consumer and leverage Clear Channel’s global scale.

Damon read Economics and Politics at Exeter University, is an active fundraiser for his local community and lives in West London with his wife Emma and their two young children.

Ged Weston is the Commercial Director at Digicom & Airport Media. Ged is responsible for overall revenue, along with sales and marketing. He possesses a wealth of experience in Media with specific expertise in Out of Home. Ged has experience of leading large and successful sales teams whilst at JCDecaux and Clear Channel, whilst more recently building new businesses and teams at Digicom and Airport Media.

Terri White is Editor-in-Chief of Bauer Media’s flagship film and entertainment brand, Empire. White is an award-winning editor with fifteen years’ experience working for publishing companies on both sides of the Atlantic.

She joins Bauer from Time Out New York where she worked as Editor-in-Chief, overseeing the brand’s editorial direction and content across all platforms. Under her leadership, Time Out New York won several American industry awards including Most Improved Publication, Overall Digital Excellence, Best Use of Instagram and Cover of the Year. White herself was named one of Folio’s Top Women in US Media, 2015.

Professor Greg Whyte OBE is a physical activity expert, world-renowned sports scientist and former Olympic Modern Pentathlete. A Professor of Applied Sport and Exercise Science at Liverpool John Moore's University and Director of Performance at the Centre for Health and Human Performance on Harley Street in London, Greg has extensive professional experience assessing, treating and improving the performance of patients, sporting enthusiasts and athletes ranging from cancer sufferers to celebrities attempting their first mountain summit to Gold medal seeking Olympians.

Guy joined Publicis in January 2015 to head up the Publicis UK and Nordic agencies. He has since been promoted to chief executive, Western Europe, Publicis Worldwide.
Over the past year, Guy has led the formation of Publicis UK’s broad client offering, acquiring content agency August and shopper marketing agency, Vivid. Under his leadership, Publicis in the UK has experienced some of its biggest wins over the last decade including Morrisons, P&G; Fairy and Heineken.
Previous to Publicis, Guy spent 16 years at AKQA, building the agency globally. As his career progressed he was promoted to manage the New York office, followed by Europe, and finally International in 2012. During this six-year period the International group trebled in revenue; opened five offices; and won over 300 major awards, including 18 ‘Agency of the year’ titles by the London office alone.
In his final role as International Vice President, Guy headed up the offices across Europe, Asia and in North America.

Laura Jane Williams is the author of hotly anticipated survive-and-thrive heartbreak memoir Becoming (Hodder & Stoughton, June 2016), writes to 40,000 monthly readers on her blog, Superlatively Rude, and regularly contributes to national newspapers and magazines on the themes of speaking up, owning your voice, and messy humanness.

A prolific public speaker, Laura is the co-founder and host of IRL Panel, a discussion and networking event for women with a lot to say, at Twitter UK. The launch trended on Twitter and reached five million eyeballs across all social media.

Laura has recently wrapped up recording for the first season of “Becoming: The Podcast”, a “talk radio show” designed to share the rites-of-passage stories of accomplished women, and has a TV series in early development.

Phil is Vice President, Digital Acquisition Marketing at American Express, responsible for developing digital platforms and executing key marketing initiatives that will drive acquisition across the American Express network. He has more than 15 years of experience in digital marketing, and a passion for redefining marketing and how customers experience brands through the digital domain. He has amassed a wealth of international experience over the course of his career and been based in multiple locations, including Toronto, New York, and London. His current charter is to transform the company’s marketing approaches to be predominantly digital across international markets.

Steve Wing joined Rubicon Project as VP, Mobile and Marketplace, International, where he oversees the strategy, planning, product requirements and business development for Mobile and Guaranteed Orders into all markets outside North America.

Steve began his career in digital in 1999 as Launch Advertising Manager at Guardian Unlimited, and then, as Head of Commercial Development, responsible for all digital revenue. In 2003 he became Head of Advertising Strategy and in 2007 joined the Guardian’s Advertising Board as Business Development Director. In 2010 he became Head of Digital Marketing, before being promoted to Business Director, Mobile, responsible for accelerating the growth of GNM’s mobile business. In November 2012 he joined CBS interactive, where he was Vice President, EMEA, responsible for the strategy, operations, and overall business performance of the Tech, Games and Media brands across EMEA.

Ben Wood is one of digital marketing's industry veterans. Now driving the vision for the agency globally, Ben previously oversaw phenomenal growth of the UK business since its launch in 2010. For two consecutive years, he has been voted within the top five of The Drum Digerati top 100 most influential individuals in digital.

Sarah Wood is co-founder and co-CEO of video ad tech company Unruly, where she ensures the company delivers the most awesome social video campaigns on the planet.

90% of Ad Age 100 brands have trusted Unruly to connect with audiences at speed and scale across the Open Web. Unruly has 15 offices, employs 200 people and was acquired by News Corp in September 2015.

Sarah has been voted one of 15 Women to Watch in Tech by Inc., one of 10 London-Based Entrepreneurs to Watch by Forbes and #4 in Digital Spy's Top 10 Women in Tech. She is a member of Tech City’s Entrepreneur Advisory Panel and a Technology Ambassador for London.

Sarah is also an associate lecturer at the University of Cambridge, where she teaches a course in Mash-Ups, Memes and LOLitics: Online Video Culture and the Screen Media Revolution.

He was one of the UK’s youngest soldiers to be selected for the elite Special Air Service at the age of 22. During this time he served in many different operational areas globally, and was awarded the UK’s second highest gallantry award for bravery and an MBE for his exemplary services whilst in Afghanistan.
As Chairman and CEO of Chrysalis Worldwide, he coaches businesses, governments, sports teams and police forces around the world on all aspects of elite performance and leadership.
Floyd’s unique and highly innovative training programmes were developed over a 20-year period, working in situations which demand the highest possible level of personal and corporate performance.
He’s the author of ‘Elite! - The Secret to Exceptional Leadership and Performance’ (2012) and ‘The Warrior, the Strategist and You : How to Find Your Purpose and Realise Your Potential’ (publication date: April 14th, 2016).

Bob’s is a career of two halves. Twenty years in senior operational, management and ownership roles in some of London’s most successful advertising agencies, and a spell as a partner in a specialist communications and management consultancy.

He then joined ISBA in mid-1996 as Director of Media & Advertising, where he is a member of the executive management team with specific responsibilities representing advertisers across all media, advertisement production and content issues.

He is or has been a director of all the industry’s audience research and content regulation bodies, and is a frequent commentator in industry and national media. A keen cook, mushroom hunter, musician and guitar collector, he still makes time to play every day.

Cameron Worth is the founder of SharpEnd, the first IoT agency and whose clients include Absolut Vodka, Unilever, Beiersdorf and Pernod Ricard. With previous roles including Engine Group and EVRYTHNG, Cameron has been heavily involved in building some of the UK’s most exciting tech businesses but has also benefited from working agency-side to help support their clients in understanding and embracing new technology opportunities.

Markus Wulff is a digital innovation manager at The Absolut Company and specialises in identifying and exploiting scalable growth opportunities. With a background in both entrepreneurship and large corporation, Markus has gained special skills in innovation development, product marketing, startup discovery, emerging technologies, conversion tracking and campaign ROI. His current focus is on the Internet of Things and how it can be leveraged to deliver new products and services that drive positive business outcomes and end-user value.

Graham is Senior Director Market Development & Channels at AppNexus, the world’s largest independent advertising technology company. Graham is also Chair of the IAB Europe Programmatic Committee where he works with marketers, agencies and publishers to explore the role of technology in bringing data and creativity together in advertising.

Duncan started his career at ITV in 1992 and was with ITV until joining Sky as a Sales Controller in 2003.
From there he progressed to Head of Sales and finally becoming Director of Sales, his current position.
Duncan’s day to day role is trading all airtime goals across Sky Media and covering all Sky channels and those of our Media partners.
Duncan’s biggest challenge over the last year has been to interlink all Channel 5 advertising into a single Sky Media position.